Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
durham.ac.uk/imh
medhumsplatform.org
Author, Historian, Mystery Novelist. Host of Peculiar Book Club. As seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE & SECRETS DECLASSIFIED. Latest mystery: THE DEAD COME TO STAY Nonfiction: THE INTERMEDIARIES @SciAm @WSJ @wired #Autistic #NB she/her
https://brandyschillace.com/
Philosopher (Birmingham/Ferrara). Founder of the Imperfect Cognitions blog and The Philosophy Garden. Editor of Philosophical Psychology. More at: lisabortolotti.com
Sloth communist.
They/them.
Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century British History @Durham_uni #dishist #histtech #histmed #ownviews #she #her
Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Psychology prof at Durham + interdisciplinary stuff (usually psychosis, inner speech, a bit of neurodiversity). Author of "Presence: The Strange Science of the Unseen Other" (MUP).
Chair of @theichr.bsky.social
Director, Medicine Health and Society
@VanderbiltU; Author http://dyingofwhiteness.com
Director of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities and Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Working on voice-hearing, psychosis, narrative, interdisciplinarity / Starting work on postpartum psychosis
Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Professor in Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University; ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.
Metaphor, narrative | corpora | cancer, pain, Covid, vaccines
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/elena-semino
Group blog investigating the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health research. Bringing research to everyone, via research updates, conference reports, and interviews with experts.
Wellcome Early Career Fellow, Durham University. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Ginger. Dyslexic. ADHD. She/her 🏳️🌈 Neurodiversity. Victorians. Musicals. Interrupting people.
Brain, mind, science, & culture. Former E-i-C of The Lancet Psychiatry. Head of Knowledge+Measurement in Mental Health at Wellcome. Early modernist+Modernist. Views mine.
Researching “the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century”. Infection-Associated Chronic Illness, activism, stigma, medical humanities. Postdoctoral fellow in Sociology.
Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Queer Medical Humanities and Philosophies of the Hospital! 🏥🏳️🌈 Founder of the Queer Medical Humanities Network + programme lead for MA Global Medical and Health Humanities
Research hub @TorchOxford, Uni of Oxford
We examine medicine and health from the perspectives of politics, philosophy, law, and history, among others. Follow for updates on our work and events.
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-humanities-research-hub
History of OCD, clinical psychology, concepts, methods, evidence.
Archive manager 4 @eshhs.bsky.social, Editor in Chief
@the-polyphony.bsky.social
To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
https://thepolyphony.org/
Companion to cats. Interested in literature, literary anthropology and philosophy. Hoping for
climate justice. Monotropic and kinetic. The needs of the many include the needs of the few.
Moving Bodies / Ageing / Menopause / Bluespace / Weather / Wellbeing / Qualitative / Medical Humanities. Leads Moving Bodies Lab. Prof at Durham University, UK
Independent Lived Experience Researcher
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medical Humanities
Durham University - Institute of Medical Humanities
The Measurement Lab + Affective Experience Lab 🤓
Philosopher + Historian + Human
📏 talk measurement to me 📐
Measuring-well.com
PhD in Literary Studies. Project examined time and care in contemporary end-of-life narratives. Lecturer @ UoM - contempory lit - race, health & environment.
The UCL Health Humanities Centre draws together staff from different disciplines and departments engaged in teaching and research on matters relating to health, illness and well-being. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/health-humanities-centre
NDHums is a safe and generative research network and space that accomodates the diverse, individual needs of scholars working in the humanities | https://ndhumanities.com | Funded by the Wellcome Discovery Platform https://medhumsplatform.org |
Mental health researcher. Writer. Queer. Sober. U=U. Free Palestine 🍉
Assistant Prof in Visual Medical Humanities at Durham University. Views mine.
The Institute for Mental Health (IMH) through interdisciplinary research and collaboration with NHS partners works to improve the outcomes and care for young people with mental health problems.
Postdoc at the Centre for Culture and the Mind, Copenhagen University. Psychology, medical humanities, voice-hearing, history of science, measurement.
Interested in chronic illness, crip theory and contemporary lit. Bookseller. He/Him.
Anthropologist of health, physical activity, social prescribing, therapeutic mobilities, Durham University
Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities, Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University · Network lead INNN · Podcast host « Raconter l’épilepsie »
Postdoctoral research associate at Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities | cognitive psychologist exploring the imagination | she/her
Digital Development & Communications at durhamimh.bsky.social
Neuroaffirming ADHD/ASC coach, writer, creative practice researcher, media and communications bod, and Associate Editor at @the-polyphony.bsky.social.
Editor, Asylum the radical mental health magazine. Prof at University of Lancashire. Ambivalent mental health politics. Mad Studies. Madzines. They/them. ❤️🐶 🌈
Associate Professor at UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics (she).
Language & illness: vaccination, psychosis, cancer, depression | humor, metaphor, (im)politeness, pronouns, negation, narrative, corpus linguistics
Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Co-runner @medvintagevault.bsky.social - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal was founded in 2017 at Columbia University by Arden Hegele, a literary scholar, and Rishi Goyal, a physician. Our mission is to develop conversations about medical and humanistic ways of knowing
Post- and anti- disciplinary practices // experimental humanities research // critical collaborations // new engagements // transformations
The Interacting Minds Centre (IMC) is an interdisciplinary research platform to study human interaction, based at Aarhus University.
Director: Prof Christine Parsons @christineparsons.bsky.social
See interactingminds.au.dk for more news, videos & podcasts
Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare,
@UniStrathclyde
& @CaledonianNews
Scotland's leading centre for the history of health and medicine 📚💊
https://tinyurl.com/3y2u52bw
Health historian at the University of Strathclyde, author of 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut (Wellcome/Profile/Pegasus, 2024) and Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH).
Association for Medical and Healthcare Humanities - Promoting critical dialogues between humanities and healthcare.
http://amh.ac.uk/
PI for AHRC Reading Bodies project: https://readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk/ @readingbodies.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Exeter
Spanish Modernism, gender and the body, Medical Humanities
Interdisciplinary Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto | 2025-26 Theme: "Dystopia and Trust". For info about Fellowships, funding opportunities, events and more, sign up for our newsletter http://eepurl.com/dhuDJv
Historian of Medicine. Loneliness, epistemic injustice, medical humanities, shame. SRA on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare project (EPIC), University of Bristol Law School.
Suicide researcher at the University of Edinburgh working on suicide prevention, speecialising in LGBTQ+ suicide and qualitative methods. She/her 🏳️🌈
Neuroqueering the borderline
Co-founder of the Mad Feeling Collective
Monograph forthcoming 2026 from Routledge
Health humanities and history of mental health, psychology, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
Currently at Leeds, formerly LSHTM and Cambridge. Affiliated at Birkbeck.
Comparative medical law and ethics, especially beginning and end of life. Durham Law School, Durham Cells, Durham Institute of Medical Humanities
Professora de Filosofia a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Philosophy of mind/psychology & feminist theory. Posts in Catalan and English. Website: https://www.upf.edu/web/marta-jorba/ Poesia: https://www.pageseditors.cat/ca/la-remor-tan-salada.html
Director of Mental Health Wellcome and Professor UCL
Historian of health & social justice. Mostly psychedelics, madness, eugenics and birth control; essentially I enjoy studying who gets to make the rules and why we let them.
Rhymes w/ paper mâché 🍉
Psychedelic humanities: literature, ethics, harm reduction 🍄
Senior Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University 🌐
University Writing Program 📝
Indigenous/Kurdish 🟥☀🟩 ND (they/them)
chemicalpoetics.substack.com
Medical anthropology, Science & Technology Studies, Disability studies, Neurosciences, Neurotechnologies, Sensory development, Suicide, Lived experiences
Wellcome funded research project health and social care assessments. Disabled and care experienced children and young people & families, history, policy, experts by experience. University of Kent. National Children's Bureau. University of Cambridge.
Hist. gender & sexuality, Weimar Republic, LGBTQ pasts, sexual science / psychoanalysis, visual cultures, neuroqueer. German & Gender Studies, ANU. Views mine. she/they
Cultural & medical anthropologist. Biopolitics, body, disasters, trauma, cosmologies. Research in Thailand, Japan, Italy. EuroSEAS board member. Assoc Prof @ Uppsala University. Psychodynamic conversational therapist. She/Her. https://eirapsychotherapy.se
Liverpool-based academic: neurodiversity, disability, accessibility, medical humanities, genre fiction (phew!). "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Historian of medicine, science, forensics & prisons. Freelance curator and heritage consultant. Former curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine. She/her
Prof. of History and Medical Humanities at @exeter.ac.uk and @humboldtuni.bsky.social . Berlin. Connecting Three Worlds, Socialist Medicine, After the End. Occasional stress baking.
Beckettian passionate about medical humanities☕️
Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket.
Montreal and Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/
Assoc Prof Social Work- Democratizing Psychiatry - Critical Public Mental Health - Lived Experience & Disability Justice
Post-doc Dept of Psychology, Uni of Oslo | Mental health care seeking (mostly) among people with a migrant background - who seeks help (or not) and why? | motivated by addressing inequalities in mental health
Network of user-led groups and people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. Shifting power and resource in mental health. https://linktr.ee/NationalSurvivorUserNetwork
CSSM is a Wellcome Trust center based in the University of Helsinki that serves as a hub for social scientists and artists conducting research on human-microbial relations. socialmicrobes.org
Poet, publisher, essayist, crip—PhD on gender, genre & disability at NTU, Singapore.
Vising PhD Fellow: IMH, Durham.
Digital Editor at Osmosis Press.
Debut collection: 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun (2023)
(they/them)♿️🏳️⚧️
Cross-cultural and experimental psychologist / anthropologist.
Working on: appearance ideals, body image, sexual selection, gender, social transmission.
Working in: 🇬🇧 🇨🇴 🇳🇮🇲🇽 🇿🇼 🇨🇳
(A veces posteo en español.)
Prof @ Durham
http://www.boothlab.org
Consultant psychotherapist/ disability activist/ bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker, future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake ❤️🥄💜🎭🦓🥄🏳️🌈
#MadSky #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Neurodivergent #Mad https://t.co/83d2Ztwpp2
recoveryinthebin.org
A critical theorist and activist collective of survivors, service users, disabled people.
Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy of Health and Medicine at
Durham University. #Epidemics #Environment #Health past and present.
Give it to the lesbians, they love a banner | Rent-a-mental (autistic type): research/art/writing | Linguistics, disability, psy disciplines
Coming in early 2026: KEYWORDS/KEYIMAGES IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Current projects: #IllnessPolitics, chronic forms, & multi-modal pedagogies in action. Author of ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, TREATMENTS, & INDIRECT ACTION.
Blogging at: lisadiedrich.org
Research Fellow for the EPIC project and Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health at the University of Birmingham interested in philosophy of psychiatry, medicine, and critical phenomenology (she/her)
jodie-russell.co.uk
Academic (literary & cultural disability studies/medical humanities), Green New Deal podcast https://www.gndmedia.co.uk Wellcome Trust Advisory Committee, North Manchester & Kreiz Breizh.
Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. Personal views. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Professor of Human Geography at Uni of Liverpool, research on chronic illness, energy limiting conditions, fat embodiment. Feminist, Fat Activist, Spoonie, PwME, Friend, Sister, Daughter, Person. Hobbies: SF, cats, knitting/crochet. she/her or they/their 🏳️⚧️
Professor of Human Geography in Scotland.
Research = mental health/missing people/seasonal affective disorder/geohumanities/climate change.
Human Being🦋
https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/winteringwell/resources/
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/duncan.wilson
Mom; Wilson Assoc Prof in History of Medicine; Dir of medical humanities; Series Ed for France Overseas, U Neb Press; cofounder ageofrevolutions.com; FRHistS; NEH Fellow 2022.
Book: Great Plague Scare of 1720 (Cambridge 2023).
Views my own.
Medical Anthropology& Humanities, Research Fellow, Univ of Manchester, CHSTM | Medical uncertainty| Mental health
(https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/cinzia.greco)
Editor Anthropologie&Santé (https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/)
Historian of anatomy, disease, and medical books. Associate Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Medical school, Uni of St Andrews. Support Chester FC and edit the fanzine The Blue & White.
Professor of Medical Humanities (historian of medicine and science) | ageing, germs, advertising, technology | Head of Graduate School | Deputy Pro-Dean for Research
Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Migrant cyclist. Rheinländer in 🇩🇪. Northerner in 🇬🇧. Lived in 🇺🇸. Owned by dog. Here privately. He/him.
Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast | President @asmcf.bsky.social | Views my own.
Universität Hamburg, Institut für Liberal Arts & Sciences
Prof. @uniHH #Literature, #Interdisciplinarity #LiberalArtsAndSciences #Theater #MedHums #WomenInAcademia - opinions my own
Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Golestan Fellow NIAS-KNAW https://nias.knaw.nl/fellow/rebecca-wynter/ Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
Professor - Interacting Minds Centre. Anthropologist. Curious. Medical humanities. Intersections of arts and science
Associate Prof, Director of Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern. The Medical Imagination (Penn Press, 2018) + Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship (Penn Press, 2026). Coeditor: Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU, 2023).
